FOR THE LOVE OF CULTURE

Italian culture is seen in its food, its art, its language, its beauty and in its people. It is in its people. Italians are deep in traditions--traditions followed, ignored, forgotten and remembered. Italians are passionate with a unique sense of drive--driven with words, with love, with desire, with the want to work to live, rather than live to work. Italians are passionate about life, about family, about connection to a sense of time that is now, that is present, that is past, that is alive and preserved in their culture. Italians are patriarchal yet matriarch rules--Italy is a feminine country. She is strong, soft, hard, bitter and sweet. She is beauty from the inside out. She is wise, sometimes surprisingly unscrupulous, at times naive but open, open to change. A change that the writer Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa describes so accurately: If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.Italian culture like its beauty must be experienced. Italian culture must be felt, heard, seen and lived. Visit, stay for awhile and explore Italy's food, art, language, beauty, and culture. Visit and fall in love with this mystical, chaotic, and paradoxical place. This place, as Federico Fellini characterizes and communicates in his films, where--There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.